Discover how many of Stoke Newington’s most cherished historic landmarks have been at risk over the years, and the parts played by local people in saving them.
The tour begins in Clissold Park, saved by a Preservation Committee in 1886–8, then proceeds along Stoke Newington Church Street and through Abney Park Cemetery. It finishes at St Michael and All Angels’ Church by Stoke Newington Common, one of 33 Hackney entries in Historic England’s current Heritage At Risk Register.
The tour will be led by Rob Briggs: Hackney resident, chair of the Hackney Society’s Buildings at Risk Group, and with several years experience of working within the heritage sector.
This tour is aimed at a broad range of people, not those with professional expertise. All that is required is an openness to hear about Stoke Newington’s architectural and landscape heritage, plus the social history and contemporary planning policies that lie behind its preservation. Places often look the way they do today because local people, on occasion, have had to campaign to save much-loved landmarks. Threats to heritage assets still exist today, and the tour will also provide attendees with ideas on how they might become involved in saving ones that are important to them.
